Variant

For variants in Legacy/Generation 1 continuity, see Special Treatment.

A Variant (Unofficial name) is a Bakugan from the Second Generation and Third Generation of Bakugan that have some type of distinguishing outward feature. Unlike the Legacy Special Treatments, these variants do not typically come with any gameplay functions.

Generation 2

List

Image	Name	Description	Released in
	Diamond	Diamond Bakugan are Bakugan made of clear plastic with faction-based painting, usually with metallic flake.	All Generation 2 Years
	Elemental	Elemental Bakugan are translucent Bakugan with special printed parts with unique patterns for each faction. Elemental Mythic Bakugan take the form of Translucent Flip Bakugan, foregoing elemental patterns.	Bakugan: Geogan Rising Bakugan: Evolutions Bakugan: Legends
	Flip	Flip Bakugan are Bakugan with reversed color schemes; this can be in the form of Bakugan whose secondary and primary colors are swapped, as shown, or Fusion Bakugan whose primary and secondary faction colors are swapped.	Bakugan: Armored Alliance Bakugan: Geogan Rising Bakugan: Evolutions Bakugan: Legends
	Genesis	Genesis Bakugan refer to the exclusive Bakugan in the Genesis Collection, of which two have special light-up functionality distinct from Nova Bakugan. The other four Bakugan feature no functionality outside of being unique Core Bakugan.	Bakugan: Evolutions
	Hexagonal	Hexagonal Bakugan are Bakugan with printed hexagon-shaped patterns on them.	Bakugan: Armored Alliance Bakugan: Geogan Rising
	Nova	Nova Bakugan are Bakugan with light-up functionality. They also all overlap as being either Translucent or Diamond.	Bakugan: Legends
	Limited Edition	Limited Edition Bakugan are a set of Bakugan with special printing exclusively distributed in special events or to specific persons by Spin Master.	Bakugan Battle Planet Bakugan: Armored Alliance Bakugan: Geogan Rising
	Platinum	Platinum Bakugan are Bakugan with significant metal parts. This treatment can overlap with any other treatment listed.	Bakugan: Geogan Rising (GeoForge Dragonoid only) Bakugan: Evolutions Bakugan: Legends
	Platinum Series	Platinum Series Bakugan are a subset of Platinum Bakugan with semi-translucent plastic in place of opaque plastic.	Bakugan: Evolutions Bakugan: Legends
	Platinum Power Up	Platinum Power Up Bakugan are a subset of Platinum Bakugan with fully opaque plastic and faction-colored metal parts. They are also typically Flip Bakugan, though exceptions exist.	Bakugan: Evolutions
	Battle Strike	Battle Strike Bakugan are a subset of Platinum Bakugan with exclusively silver-colored metal parts, and can be either translucent or opaque.	Bakugan: Evolutions
	Sparkle	Sparkle Bakugan are Bakugan with metallic flake throughout their base plastic.	Bakugan: Armored Alliance Bakugan: Geogan Rising
	Translucent	Translucent Bakugan are Bakugan produced primarily or entirely out of translucent or transparent plastic of their faction color.	All Generation 2 Years
	Ultra Rare	Ultra Rare Bakugan are special Bakugan with unique printing exclusively available as chase figures at United States Wal-Marts and Targets.	Bakugan: Armored Alliance Bakugan: Geogan Rising

Miscellaneous

This section of page lists some special cases of Bakugan, that can be considered variant, but their special features were limited to only one mold each appeared in:

• Cloptor and Cloptor Ultra have white paint on their eye in any Faction. During Bakugan: Battle Planet white did not appear on Bakugan outside of the Haos Faction.
• Cloptor Ultra's shooting eye feature is exclusive to that mold. No other Bakugan in Reboot franchise so far has a similar feature.
• All Versions of Armored Alliance Nillious and Nillious Ultra have orange eyes on the right side head regardless of Faction. This does not carry over to the Bakugan: Legends version of Nillious Ultra.
• All Versions of Geogan Rising Nillious and Nillious Ultra have orange eyes on the middle and right side heads regardless of faction. This does not carry over to the Bakugan: Evolutions version of core Nillious.
• Cosplay Cubbos each have unique painting, that don't always correspond with the rest of the Faction.
• The Arcleon that comes in the Geogan Rising Unbox & Brawl Pack is a slightly lighter shade of red then the normal version.